Libro di M. Giovambattista Palatino cittadino romano : nelqual s'insegna à scriuer ogni sorte lettera, antica & moderna, di qualun que natione, con le sue regole, & misure, & essempi : et con vn breve et vtil discorso de le cifre

by: Palatino, Giovanni Battista, 16th cent; Palatino, Giovanni Battista, 16th cent. Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere

Publication date: 1550

Topics: Penmanship, Alphabets, Lettering

Publisher: In Roma in Campo di Fiore : Per Antonio Blado asolano

Collection: getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Sloan Foundation

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Italian

Imprint from colophon

Papal permission dated 1540, the year of the 1st ed. Palatino's dedication dated 1545 (A4v), and a number of the pages bear dates of 1540 or 1545. The present ed. is a re-issue of that of 1548; letterpress pages have been reset; see Bonacini

Signatures: A-H (H8 blank)

Getty copy lacks final blank

Woodcut port. of author on t.p. The pages displaying the chancery hand and the various alphabets are printed from woodcut blocks. "Sonetto figurato" (sonnet in rebus), F6v-F8r. Full-page cut of writing implements, G8v. Palatino's moth & flame emblem, H7v. Historiated initials

Bonacini, C. Arti scrittorie

Binding: decorated paper. Green leather spine with author, place and date in gilt. Parchment corners

Outline letters on D7v partly filled in with brown color